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News

New rulings on New York power markets will protect competition, federal regulators say, while some renewable energy advocates argue that they subsidize fossil fuel resources and go against the state’s clean energy goals. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced Thursday it ruled in four orders dealing with buyer-side market power issues in the New York Independent System Operator Inc’s capacity

Emissions

A New York nuclear power plant is celebrating its fifth decade in carbon-free operation this month. Owner Exelon Generation noted that the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant generated its first reaction to produce electricity on Nov. 9, 1969. Ginna produces enough electricity to power about 500,000 homes and businesses, the parent company noted. By utilizing nuclear instead of fossil fuels,

Gas

Short-term, some new rulemaking announced by President Trump may help the region deal with a lack of natural gas pipeline access. Long term, the independent system operator may develop some new market incentives.

Coal

2017 marked another remarkable year for renewable energy resources in the U.S. power sector.

Coal

The decline was pegged to the increased use of distributed energy resources as well as energy efficiency efforts.

Energy Storage

With this acquisition, Convergent’s portfolio of completed projects totals 66.5 MW across seven projects in North America.

Gas

Currently, Indian Point provides 25 percent of the electricity used by New York City and Westchester County….

Gas

While traditional cooling towers require 270 to 330 gallons of water per MWh, dry cooling towers can use as little as 10 to 20 gallons. …

Coal

Thursday’s peak reached 68.8 GW across the service area, with Friday’s at an estimated 69.5 GW….

Batteries

Toshiba to Pay $3.68 Billion for Vogtle Westinghouse Reactors Toshiba Corp. will pay $3.68 billion toward the construction of two reactors in Georgia by its U.S…

News

The reserve margins are expected to range from slightly less than 15 percent in New England to almost 29 percent in New York….

Gas

Cricket Valley, which will cost an estimated $1.584 billion to build, will sell energy, capacity and ancillary services to the New York Independent System Opera…

News

Announcements from companies attending POWER-GEN 2016. …

Biomass

Greenridge Unit 4 will have a net output of 106.3 MW….

Nuclear

Since 2013, eight U.S. nuclear power plants have announced plans to permanently shut down operations….